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Rock the BlockJune 30

So you want to be a four-star chef
somewhere. You're given top of the line equipment, the best ingredients,
and state of the art cutlery to create masterpieces in haute cuisine.

This show... has none of that. This is
Extreme Chef, a show for those of us who think Iron Chef is for sissies.

Our three cheftestants will be given
whatever we can throw at them, and they'll have to create a three-course
dinner with an elimination after each round. The players will have to
face not only the pressure of the clock, but ever-changing environments
in order to create their dishes. And in the end, it will all come down
to one silver spoon and one bite to see who will pocket $10,000.

Today's unfortunate threesome are...

Leather
StorrsPortland, OR
executive chef, Noble Rot

Kristi RicheyBeverly Hills, CA
executive chef, Greenleaf Chopshop

Sydney HunterLos Angeles
executive chef, Bastide

EXPRESS CHALLENGE: 30-Minute Canned Food Meal

Our three chefs meet in the most extreme
urban landscape.... Suburban America. For this challenge, they'll be
making something that's in almost every suburban household... a chef's
worst nightmare... CANNED FOOD. They'll have to use whatever means of
transport they can find to truck a load of unmarked canned food back to
their stations, where they will have half an hour to cook something up
using only plastic spoons and knives. The winner according to the judge
will have a pivotal advantage going into the next round.

Leather's first back with cherries, soup,
some meat of some kind. Sydney has sardines, more fish, hominy, French
onion soup. Kristi has veggie soup, hominy, and... something else.

Kristi picks the propane, Sydney, the
charcoal, and Leather the hibachi. Arigato.

ELIMINATION CHALLENGE: Block Party Lunch

Time to cook for a block party. But you
have to source your ingredients and utensils from the homes around the
neighborhood. You will have 90 minutes to come with a dish.

Kristi finds a ground pork and butter.
Leather gets greens and beef short ribs. Sydney gets some salmon, bell
peppers, and that he has a thing against ransacking. Kristi is working
on a pork burger with quinoa. Sydney goes with salmon with pickled
vegetables. Leather... might make leather.

Now this wouldn't be "Extreme Chef"
without some wrinkle thrown in... In-game, they are called...

X-FACTOR #1: You must cook a hot
appetizer - a flank steak, a shrimp, or a pork sausage - on an ENGINE
BLOCK.

Leather gets a flank steak... with
yogurt. Sydney adds garlic to shrimp. Kristi is left with pork sausage,
using a hobo meal, marrying potatoes, mushrooms, artichokes, and the
sausage.

Oh, the weatherman has a message for
you....

X-FACTOR #2: The forecast is calling
for HEAVY RAIN.

You will get some umbrellas if you want
one. And we have an injury on the field. Sydney and Kristi get theirs,
while Leather... doesn't need a stinking umbrella. Portland native!

Okay, that's enough rain. A weather
update... Leather is making short ribs on a hibachi and yogurt-marinated
flank-steak on his car. Kristi is working on pork burgers on quinoa hash
with panko to sop up the water from the rainstorm. She also has a pork
sausage hobo meal on her car which is still raw. Sydney has grilled
salmon on a grill the wrong way down and shrimp marinated under the
hood.

Running out of time... and Kristi will
NOT serve her hobo meal. It's raw. Up against it, and remember, if it's
not on the plate, it will not be judged.

Leather's beef was raw, while Sydney's
salmon vegetable dish had a little bit of protein in it... his hair. And
Kristi... had no appetizer.

ELIMINATED... SYDNEY. And while he's good
to the rest of the contestants, he swears that hair wasn't his. Well it
sure as heck wasn't Simon's. He's bald and sexy.

FINAL SHOWDOWN: One Bite

This will be the biggest dish you'll ever
make... and also the smallest. One spoonful... $10,000. And your
ingredients are what you would find in a child's sack lunch: a ham
sandwich, raisins, carrots, string cheese, and beef jerky. Your only
tools are whatever's inside a personal grooming kits: cuticle scissors,
nail files, and tweezers among them.